[plug] Windows and Linux SWAP

[Peter Revill]

I am the LinuxAlien wrote:

> Is there some way to share a swap partition between windows and Linux?


Short and simple awnser: No, linux uses an efficent, powerful, file 
SYSTEM, rather than a single file, for swap file, the technical 
advantages of this approach is that the file system used for swap has 
been written from the ground up with swap in mind.

Long awnser: you COULD, if you could convince linux to use fat32 as its 
swap, and then make a new fat 32 partition and get windows and linux to 
place there information in there.. but i'm not even sure if you can tell 
linux to use a particular file system for its swap, other than a swap 
partition :p

> I am running Debian and W2k. I have 128Mb ram and a 235Mb swap 
> partition. Windows has currently got a 128Mb swap file. My main need 
> for the speed advantage is for Windows as this is my work computer 
> used for High intensity graphics. (is there some way to help boost 
> this, it is Macromedia Flash Mx and won't run under Linux.) 

Turn up the virtual memory in windows.. alot